How to make a beautiful website?

Question

CMS

Need good advice. There is a site created a long time ago on Joomla, a complete overhaul is required. Not a shop. Leadership Requirements:

• Outwardly beautiful and bright, but everything should be in moderation, not a parrot site
  
• Need a forum
  
• Convenient admin panel
  

In principle, these are all requirements. SEO is not needed at all, since the company works with large wholesalers and does not need advertising. Probably, it would be possible to make a simple, beautiful business card in HTML, CSS, but you need a convenient admin panel and a forum. Management is ready to spend money on CMS. What CMS is more convenient and better to make such a representative site? The CMS should still have a forum. Maybe in the future, the site will become a store, or maybe not.

Answer 1

Beautiful and bright - hire a designer. Will do what you need. It has nothing to do with the choice of CMS.
The forum is usually set separately. Sometimes integrated with an existing CMS in terms of general user registration. Forum engines are full. Choose to your taste.
Convenient admin panel is a subjective concept. Someone is comfortable with one thing, but someone drupal. See, choose.
https://cmsmagazine.ru/cms/